Video: Friday, Week 73

[kettchmeifyoucan]

[No one who knows Wes will be terribly surprised to see that the background of the video feed shows a local bar. LIstening to angry drunks? Just plain drinking? That's the trick isn't it?

But he's grinning into the camera.]

So, any of you spacey types want to hear more about the satellites?

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[last_ofthe_jedi]

My expertise is in ships, droids, and moisture vaporators. [He smirks at Wes' confidence in his abilities. It's not that he's clueless, he just doesn't have that much experience with satellites in particular. Still, he has a couple ideas just based on his time in the military and his own common sense.]

Well, the controls would have to be triangulated with the satellite in one way or another. Do we know if the satellite had its own controls or did it share them with all the others?

[kettchmeifyoucan]

Pretty sure by Alliance rules that's close enough.

[A lot of things were close enough by Alliance rules. They're very general rules.]

As far as anyone's been able to work out, there are controls on the individual units, but there should be a way of working the entire network... somewhere.

[last_ofthe_jedi]

[Luke chuckles. The Alliance did tend to be pretty lax about things... which is probably how Luke became a commander before he even turned nineteen. Well, part of the reason. He'll gladly take some of the credit. You don't blow up the Death Star and have nothing to show for it.]

There might be a couple ways to do it, then. The individual controls could be found by locating those of the other satellites, assuming they're evenly placed and assuming they could be located. If the other satellites are active we might be able to detect and track their signal patterns down to the planet's surface.

As for the main controls it might be a similar method. It would mean that all the satellites communicate basic controls with each other and, assuming we can follow the triangulated signal, track it back to the main console. Even if we don't have direct access to them the other satellites could teach us a lot about the one we have, if we can find the right equipment.

I know that's a lot of ifs but that would be the obvious answer to me and it's where I'd start looking.